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One other has clarified, and it's important: Email is pseudonymous, and that's all that is required. Frustrating, but not quite as speech-quelling as addresses and phone numbers.

Oh, and you bought that domain with a credit card.



> Oh, and you bought that domain with a credit card.

Namecheap actually accepts Bitcoin[0], but yes - the way they are currently implemented and used, TLD domain names are not at all anonymous.

[0] https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment-options/bitcoin.as...


Do registrars not accept pre-paid cards?


I haven't tried personally, but most of the time now one cannot purchase or use a prepaid card without associating it to an address.

You know, for turrursm.


Associating an address is as easy as Googling "1 Main Street" in whatever town you'd like, and grabbing the zip code. There's no real verification to it.


That's not true, at least not in the US. In particular, the Vanilla Visa prepaid cards sold at Walgreens and CVS don't even allow you to register an address, only optional registration of a ZIP code for partial address verification.

Some, but not most, vendors do require more extensive address information on file.




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